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The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode with hosts Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon - Episode 24: But Is It Web Scale? They're also joined this time by Steve Corona, author of Scaling PHP.

Most of this conversation centers around Phil and Ben's horrible facial hair with a few questions thrown Steve's way to educate us on getting the most out of your LAMP stack. The main takeaways are to stop using Apache and to start using Postgres.

Having only just recently been bit by the character encoding issue again, we thought it would be a good time to bring it up on the podcast. Starting from the beginning with ASCII, we move on to discuss how 8-bit compatible machines brought way to the ISO-8859-* standards. This leads us on to Unicode, with the goal to develop a single character-set encoding standard that could support all of the world's scripts. Finally, we discuss the de-factor character encoding implementation used on the web today 'UTF-8', and reasons why this is the case.

Link: http://threedevsandamaybe.com/posts/understanding-character-sets-and-encodings/]]>Wed, 14 May 2014 13:12:06 -0500http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18909http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18909
The /Dev/Hell podcast has released their latest episode - Episode 24 - Members Only (hosted by Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler):

Special guest Matt Turland joins us for episode 24, and tells us how much of an asshole Chris is in real life. We also talk a lot about team development processes, including ramping up new hires, documenting processes, and workflow tools. Lots of super smart stuff that we're usually too lazy to do.